FARM-to-MARKET MODEL - NO MIDDLEMEN SUPPORTS AGRICULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY and LOCAL ECONOMIC STABILITY Our Team HAND PACKED AND LOW-MECHANIZATION Packing Done By Hand   We supply the highest quality sweet onions sorted and packed by hand. Sweet Nazcas are minimally mechanized and labor intensive, maximizing employment for our Peruvian team. We plant during the winter months in the US (Peru is opposite seasons being south of the equator). Harvesting is done in late summer. We deliver to food markets during fall. Sweet Nazcas are available in stores in the US and Canada from September to January. Our team members are employed formally, under full and part time contracts.That empowers them to begin building better lives, their retirement and entitles them to local Peruvian governmental social benefits of hospitalization and unemployment insurance. We also give back to several local communities in which our team members reside, such as schools, churches, local fund raisers and cultural festivities. We believe by doing the right thing with our people (treating them with the dignity and respect that they deserve) in our small way we can help make the world a better place, and so can you by purchasing our "Sweet Nazcas". This philosophy, doing things the old fashioned way slowly by hand, allows everyone to win. This is the very core of our belief system. Along with practicing Social Responsibility and Community Sustainability mentioned above, our goal is to practice Sustainable Farming as it applies to the environment and the preservation and efficient use of resources. We are currently working towards that.